Thomas de la Rivere; Joan de la Rivere, wife of Thomas de la Rivere. Rivere; Rivere...

Petitioners

Thomas de la Rivere; Joan de la Rivere, wife of Thomas de la Rivere.

Name(s)

Rivere; Rivere, Thomas; Joan

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Thomas de la Rivere and Joan his wife state that, because Robert Walwayn disseised them of a messuage in Scarborough that they had leased to him, they brought an assize of novel disseisin in the county of Yorkshire before John de Danecastre and his companions, which was adjudged in their favour because of the default of Robert. When he heard that it had gone against him, he surrendered the messuage into the king's hand, so that the king sent letters under the privy seal to the justices, not to continue in the assize: so that they have since not dared to do anything. The king has since given the messuage to the Friars of Carmel, in disinheritance of Thomas and Joan. They request a remedy.

Nature of endorsement

He is to take action for himself by distress and further by assize etc, if necessary.

Places mentioned

Scarborough, [North Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

Robert Wawayn (Walwayn)

John de Danecastre (Doncaster), justice

the Carmelite Friars of Scarborough.

An earlier petition from the same petitioners on the same subject is SC 8/137/6823

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.449 (order to the justices to take the assize of novel disseisin, but not to render judgement without consulting the king)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.418a, no.229 (full edition of original petition)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 70-2, no. 11 (summary of references to related petition)